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Default Betadine discontinued: UK replacement for sanitizing brewingequipment?

On 2014-05-09, Jethro_uk wrote:

> On Fri, 09 May 2014 10:56:30 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:


>> What's wrong with sodium metabisulphite?

>
> It's not "no rinse". Because I bottle my beer, trying to sanitise 45
> bottles, and then rinse them is a PITA. Then I read in a forum about no-
> rinsing, and a bottle-washing pump. You fill the pumps bowl with 500ml of
> no-rinse sanitiser (StarSan), and press the bottle down onto a spout
> which sprays the inside. Leave to dry, bottle. Been doing this for over a
> year now, and it's perfect.


Same here.

I happen to have a drawer from an older freezer whose holes
are perfectly suited to holding upside-down beer bottles without
touching the inside or the lip. For rinsing, I brought one of these
<http://www.antonco.com/jetcarboy/>
from the US, then had to make my own adapter to fit it on a British
garden tap.

But after using no-rinse Betadine solutions, I don't want to go back
to rinsing even the other equipment, never mind the bottles. I'll
look up StarSan --- thanks for the tip!


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